What a Successful Code Scan Does Not Prove
Quick answer: A successful scan proves the document was rebuilt from routes the scan could resolve, and nothing more. It does not prove the implementation conforms to the spec, behaves correctly at runtime, or is free of defects. Treat unresolved findings as unknown rather than inferred facts, and verify runtime behavior separately through tests and scenario runs. The scan does not run the app.…
A successful code scan proves that a document was rebuilt from routes that the scan could resolve, but it does not prove that the implementation conforms to the specification, behaves correctly at runtime, or is free of defects. The scan creates a validated OpenAPI 3.2 document with routes proven through framework tracing and AST analysis, and contracts classified by the completeness gate.
However, what the scan actually establishes is a statement about the document and its provenance, not a statement about runtime behavior. Confusing the two can lead to over-trust in the scan results.
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